The map of new coronavirus cases in the United States (the darker, the higher) on October 23, 2020. -

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The third wave is here.

The United States recorded a daily record on Friday with 83,000 new cases of coronavirus counted across the country, according to the count from the Covid Tracking Project.

While Donald Trump assured, during his debate against Joe Biden, that the United States was "turning the page" of Covid, the new figures, with increased hospitalizations, could weigh on the election, 10 days before the poll.

Our daily update is published.

States reported a record high 1.3 million tests and 83k cases.

There are currently 41k people hospitalized with COVID-19 and 916 deaths were reported.

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- The COVID Tracking Project (@ COVID19Tracking) October 23, 2020

The figure for infections should be put into perspective: it is accompanied by a record number of tests: nearly 1.3 million.

But the positivity rate has increased by 50% since the beginning of October, to nearly 6%, and the hospitalization curve is starting to rise, with nearly 40,000 people hospitalized.

The number of daily deaths is around 1,000 and should logically rise to summer (1,500 / d) or spring (2,000 / d) levels over the coming weeks.

States spared until then affected

In the spring, the Covid had swept over the northeast of the country, mainly in New York.

Then this summer, the pandemic spread to the South and West of the United States (Florida, Texas, Arizona, California).

This fall, it is in the Midwest (Wisconsin, Iowa, Indiana) and the “far west” (North and South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Nebraska) that the Covid is progressing the most.

But for 48 hours, California, which remained in the green, has seen its cases double from 3,000 to 6,000.

If Donald Trump was hoping for a lull, this is far from the case.

The American president must face the polls as the coronavirus is the main concern of Americans, along with the health of the economy.

Joe Biden predicted a “dark winter” for the United States on Thursday.

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